[LLVMdev] Supporting multiple PIC/PLT formats per architecture

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sun Aug 17 11:52:41 PDT 2014


On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:26:25PM -0700, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> PowerPC makes this even more interesting, because it also supports a
> 'secure PLT' mode, which makes the PLT read-only.  I haven't verified,
> but it likely also works on both pic levels (-fpic, -fPIC), so there
> needs to be some way of supporting this as well.

Secure PLT is pretty much a toolchain feature, it doesn't really change
the small vs large PLT issue.

Joerg



More information about the llvm-dev mailing list